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I I I Council Meeting Minutes September 22, 1987 posed, there is not much time if the project is to be continued into 1988. Cox's proposal is to continue the Clean Flo system and not expend the $2,000 for an experiment in bog removal and believes residents can work out details. Proper believes the purpose of doing it is to find out if it will work practically and economically; one of the problems identified is the need to get the equipment onto the lake; doesn't believe there is a question the materials can be removed; doesn't know if it can be accomplished for $2,000. Benke asked what is the ultimate cost to remove the rest of the bog; Proper thinks there is a general feeling that the $2,000 should remove a significant part of the bog (the test will indi- cate just how significant that part might be). Proper continued that residents have indicated they do not wish to remove the en- tire bog, they would just like to keep it from consuming the en- tire lake. David Hoel, 2738 - 17th Terrace NW, commented as follows: the con- tractor the residents have been talking to is not a friend, but rather a contractor doing business in New Brighton; there is no home owners association because no one wants to be chair from a legal liability point of view; there are various things that people want in the pond (fish, bog, swimming, etc.); found Clean Flo is taking care of the bottom of the lake, but, since the water quality is higher, the bog is growing; both David Markham and him- self are now permitted by the State to do the spraying which saves $400 several times each year; and Jim Thine, the contractor who built all the houses on the north side of the lake, and a neighbor who is a professional backhoe operator, saw no reason why the backhoe would not work. Hoel stated the proposal is to spend $100 per hour for the backhoe and the operator to move the material for half a day and, if pro- gress, is made the project will continue up to $2,000; if not, work will be stopped and the full amount will not be spent, and the balance will be carried forward to next year's budget. If it does work, next year the residents can decide whether or not they wish to continue the process. In response to Gunderman's question, Hoel believes the maximum depth of the bog is about six feet. Heckathorne re-emphasized he looks at the $2,000 as an expense for an experiment, and believes other alternatives should be reviewed. Proper indicated just about every alternative has been reviewed: made a study about ten years ago for hydraulically dredging it which could not be started for less than $100,000 and, because the bog is mostly living vegetation, that process probably would not have worked; using herbicides to kill it (then it would die and decompose), which would be equally as experimental with equal Page 15